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15 Mordad 1387
Tuesday 15 Mordad 1387 in the Persian calendar is Tuesday, 5 August 2008, and 3 Sha'ban 1429 in the Islamic calendar.
This day in four calendars
- Persian15 Mordad 1387
- Gregorian5 August 2008
- Islamic3 Sha'ban 1429
- Imperial15 Mordad 2567
- Day of the year139 of 366
- Left in the year227 days
- ZodiacLeo
- YearRat
Occasions on 15 Mordad 1387
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On this day: August 5
Events
- 1939 (87 years ago) The Thirteen Roses: Thirteen female members of the Unified Socialist Youth are executed by Francoist forces in Madrid, Spain.
- 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: The Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia.
- 1949 (77 years ago) In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
- 1960 (66 years ago) Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
- 1981 (45 years ago) President Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
- 1995 (31 years ago) Yugoslav Wars: The city of Knin, Croatia, a significant Serb stronghold, is taken by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated in Croatia as Victory Day.
- 2003 (23 years ago) A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
- 2021 (5 years ago) Australia's second most populous state Victoria enters its sixth COVID-19 lockdown, enacting stage four restrictions statewide in reaction to six new COVID-19 cases recorded that morning.
Births
- 1681 (345 years ago) Vitus Bering, Danish-born Russian explorer (died 1741)
- 1802 (224 years ago) Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician and theorist (died 1829)
- 1844 (182 years ago) Ilya Repin, Russian painter and sculptor (died 1930)
- 1850 (176 years ago) Guy de Maupassant, French short story writer, novelist, and poet (died 1893)
- 1906 (120 years ago) John Huston, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1987)
- 1930 (96 years ago) Neil Armstrong, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut, first man to walk on the Moon (died 2012)
- 1968 (58 years ago) Marine Le Pen, French lawyer and politician
- 1974 (52 years ago) Kajol, Indian film actress
Deaths
- 882 (1144 years ago) Louis III, Frankish king (born 863)
- 1895 (131 years ago) Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (born 1820)
- 1955 (71 years ago) Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress and singer (born 1909)
- 1957 (69 years ago) Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)
- 1984 (42 years ago) Richard Burton, Welsh actor (born 1925)
- 1998 (28 years ago) Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian commander and politician, 36th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (born 1911)
- 2000 (26 years ago) Alec Guinness, English actor (born 1914)
- 2019 (7 years ago) Toni Morrison, American author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and Nobel laureate (born 1931).